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Happens Quotes - Page 45

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.25, Macmillan

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

"Terry Pratchett on his latest novel, his medical diagnosis, and more". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2012.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

Booksource.com Interview with Gavin J. Grant, 2008.

Things just happen. What the hell.

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.12, Random House

maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.

Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.677, Scholastic UK

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Susan Cheever (2015). “Home Before Dark”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.21, Black Irish Books

True love always happens in a flash.

Stephen King (2002). “From a Buick 8”, Scribner